"To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future."

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Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 157), 1986.

Akio Morita

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“The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.”
“We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics...”
“I've cooked just about everything really.”
“I think there’s a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part of the 20th century when creating a single expression of an idea was the norm.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.”
“Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where it’s safest, don’t stand out too much, don’t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But they’re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think they’re independent and free.”

Source : "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.
“I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.”
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal ***** of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but thenâ€”how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.”

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